Anne of Green Gables

[mirkosp]

Anne is an orphan full of imagination. When she arrives at her new home she’ll understand that, sometimes, you’ve to be a sensible person too, but her unique character will change, or at least attract the people around her. The story covers Anne’s growth from about eleven to seventeen years old, while she makes friends, goes to school and studies to fulfil her dream. At a difficult point in her life, Anne will have to take a hard choice, but at the end she’ll be able to find a new dream.
Born of the pen of the Canadian writer L.M. Montgomery, the little red-haired orphan comes to life in this anime, based on the first book in the long Anne series. Nobody has ever wanted her in her long and lonely 11-year-old life... until this dream comes true and she is going to have a wonderful home in Green Gables on Prince Edward Island with Marilla and Mathew Cuthbert. But all turns too good to be true - it was just a mistake; the Cuthberts have "ordered a boy" from the orphanage and have no need for a girl. And yet, soon Marilla and Matthew discover that they cannot live without this lively imaginative chatterbox. Green Gables becomes her home; Diana - the best "bosom friend" any girl ever dreamed of; Gilbert - the hated but never-despairing boy in love... Friends, dreams and school, scrapes and funny accidents, laughter and tears, tragedies and achievements - fill Anne's life as she goes on her road of growing up.

This thread is for discussion of both the original series and the recent prequel, "Before Green Gables." Here's the summary of the prequel, too:

Anne Shirley goes through quite a lot of adventures before she ends up in Green Gables. She is living with a family and helps out by looking after the kids, helping in the chores around the home... Meanwhile she discovers more about who she is, that her name is "Anne" and not "Ann"... And she just is her adorable but a bit crazy self.

[Enigma]

looks old

[mirkosp]

looks old

Original series is from 1979. This year a prequel has been made, based on the novel published just last year.

[Enigma]

looks old

Original series is from 1979. This year a prequel has been made, based on the novel published just last year.

I like my anime how i like my women,New ;>.Nah joking,I,ll check this show out seems interesting.

[Kionon]

Anne with an e. Ann looks so dreadful, but Anne with an e looks absolutely exquisite, don't you think?

Soup, Anne is the very model of the original feminist movement, and is very much the epitome of Virginia Woolf's "A Room of Her Own" (read Gilbert Blythe). I feel bad for the Canadians on the forum who are inundated with Anne related stuff literally from birth and never get a chance to discover the series on their own. As an elementary school student, discovering Anne was very much like adding a friend, a kindred spirit, as Anne would say. I have never lost the wonder I have had for an entire book series, classics no less, devoted to a child with the same verbosity, imagination, and world view as I have.

I recommend you read the novels in the original English, but the series has been translated into 20 languages, and sold over 50 million copies of the first book. It should be easy enough to get. Failing that, at least try to watch one or both of the anime series or the CBC productions by Kevin Sullivan.

Anne and I, we like this *crossed fingers* yo.

[CodeZTM]

Holy crap, they had an anime of this? This is some of my favorite literature of all time! =D

I must get... And get quickly...

[mirkosp]

I have seen this show countless times, both in my childhood and recently. They broadcast it like every other year or so. It is a very nice show, I admit, though I'd prefer them to broadcast something else too... >_>"

[Kionon]

I have the entire original series, but I reread the books so often, I never bothered seriously watching it.

Also, Emily of New Moon came out two years ago, but I don't think Jane of Lantern Hill has been animated.

[CorpseGoddess]

Anne with an e. Ann looks so dreadful, but Anne with an e looks absolutely exquisite, don't you think?

Soup, Anne is the very model of the original feminist movement, and is very much the epitome of Virginia Woolf's "A Room of Her Own" (read Gilbert Blythe). I feel bad for the Canadians on the forum who are inundated with Anne related stuff literally from birth and never get a chance to discover the series on their own. As an elementary school student, discovering Anne was very much like adding a friend, a kindred spirit, as Anne would say. I have never lost the wonder I have had for an entire book series, classics no less, devoted to a child with the same verbosity, imagination, and world view as I have.

I recommend you read the novels in the original English, but the series has been translated into 20 languages, and sold over 50 million copies of the first book. It should be easy enough to get. Failing that, at least try to watch one or both of the anime series or the CBC productions by Kevin Sullivan.

Anne and I, we like this *crossed fingers* yo.

Wonderful summary, Kionon. I found Anne as a kid and was thrilled with the PBS miniseries that came out when I was in high school. One of my all-time favourite quotes is Anne discussing her "dream man" with Marilla:

Marilla: Would you want to marry a wicked man?
Anne: Well, I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

That conversation basically framed what I was looking for in a guy from my every early years. lol.

I have yet to see this anime, but your post reminded me of how much I love Anne and how very much she is a kindred spirit and a bosom friend, so I will be checking it out shortly. Thanks again for a great post!